On United States local time July 29, 2015, the first editorial board meeting for the English academic Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy was held in Denver at the same time the IEEE Power & Energy Society (IEEE PES) General Meeting was held. State Grid Electric Power Research Institute organized the meeting. The MPCE editor-in-chief, academician Yusheng Xue presided over the meeting. The MPCE deputy editor-in-chief, professor Kit Po Wong from the University of Western Australia and more than 40 editorial board members and invited experts from China, the United States, Canada, Australia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and South Korea attended the meeting.

The meeting began with a welcome speech by the academician Yusheng Xue on behalf of the organizer-State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, then the MPCE deputy editor-in-chief, Professor Kit Po Wong from the University of Western Australia, reported encouraging progress which MPCE has achieved since it was founded two years ago, and expressed his heartfelt thanks to the editorial board members and the experts for their great contributions to MPCE. At last, the editors and experts at this meeting exchanged their opinions on how to quickly enhance MPCE international influence, promote drafting and recommendation of outstanding original papers, further improve the quality of academic papers, paper review process optimization, key topics of year 2017 and other aspects, and how to cooperate to develop MPCE. The meeting was very active.

The meeting was a great success and highly praised by the editors and experts at the meeting. This meeting promoted contact of MPCE with both editors and experts and generated a lot of valuable suggestions to enhance the MPCE's level of internationalization. The meeting further promoted international academic exchange and cooperation in the field of power systems and energy. It has a very important and far-reaching significance for the development of MPCE.